Quotes About Acceptance

When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.

You always get the odd comment, along the lines of the women are not as good as the men, and I get called a lesbian.

For me personally, I have vitiligo, so my whole career, it's always been this very odd debate: 'Does she want to be white? Is she white and black? Is her mum white?' It's always been this question of my background, my race, and what I stand for.

I'm the little half-black, half-Jewish girl who was odd and awkward. I try to be myself.

I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.

I'm too small and too short. I thought that was odd; that should be a non-issue to me.

Ireland is a great place to be odd.

I didn't fit in on my football team; I was always the odd one out.

It's not odd to be a female in a band anymore. It's not odd to be a girl carrying a guitar case to a gig.

As a kid I was very conscious of trying to be functional and not be too odd.

I look in the mirror and see new lines every day, I'll see the odd grey hair - but this is life.

People like to put people in little boxes and if you don't fit you're odd. But they don't really know anything about me.

In chess, everyone's accepted. That's what's great about it. You can be a little bit different. You can be an oddball.

I'm okay with being the oddball.

When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs, a giving up on the world that seems oddly familiar even if you've never done it before.

I'm not at all interested in the brave who fight against the odds and win. I am interested in those who accept their lot, as that is what many people in the world are doing. They do their best in ghastly conditions.

The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.

We do not want to sell anything that offends people.

I have friends on the homosexuality side. It's not something that offends me at all.

My father always wanted to be 'Col-bear.' He lived in the same town as his father, and his father didn't like the idea of the name with the French pronunciation. So my father said to us, 'Do what you want. You're not going to offend anybody.' And he was dead long before I made my decision.

Don't break me up - I wouldn't offend any person, be they black, Asian or whatever.

I have to be careful, as I don't want to offend Midlanders, but growing up, it wasn't like growing up in London. Anything you were interested in, you'd be able to find someone also interested in it. In the Midlands, nobody came out as gay at my school at all.

I am never offended when I see the drag-queens dressed up like me.

John Kerry didn't out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn't be offended by the truth.